Resources

CVS is a powerful production quality source code repository and version control system in wide use around the world. Some of the most popular CVS resources available for softward developers include:

CVS News

Recent CVS news, including release announcements, are posted on the Current events page. To receive the same news via email, subscribe to the cvs-announce mailing list (these announcements are duplicated on the bug-cvs@nongnu.org and info-cvs@nongnu.org mailing lists).

CVS Development

You may browse the current CVS sources on Savannah.

You may also view the project pages.

Downloading CVS

CVS can be downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/ or one of the mirrors (make sure to check the non-gnu/cvs directory on the mirrors). For other ways to obtain CVS, please read How to get GNU Software.

CVS Documentation

The CVS Information Page contains detailed, and current information on CVS.

The manual is also available online.

CVS Help and Bug Reports

Help requests and bug reports are handled for free, on a volunteer basis, on the CVS Mailing Lists.

Companies offering commercial support for CVS are listed in the CVS Wiki.

Further CVS documentation

CVS Books

Practical Software Configuration Management
Open Source Development with CVS (online chapters version)

CVS Clients

You can download CVS clients from various web sites. You can click on the links below to download TortoiseCVS and WinCVS.